Friday, 30 September 2011
Thought for the day
Think for a moment about the company you work for or a company you have worked for, and try to remember the rules and politics that made you feel perhaps slightly insignificant and fearful. Now consider the life of a human being versus that of a company or corporation. Ask yourself which you value more, the life of a person or the profits of a company? Now ask yourself which do you think the company owners and executives value most? One last question; do you know how much corporations and companies contribute to your political party system? and I don't mean the large sums of money they donate.
How the media lies to you
Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/7o4xcuj
I should have posted these videos up long ago. They are both excellent documentaries regarding the media and the global corporate empire and how they manipulate the masses. The first is a documentary about Noam Chomskyand the Media (which is also it's subtitle) and it is called 'Manufacturing Consent'. It's a good few years old but it is more relavent than ever, much in the same way the Orwell's work is:
The second documentary is far more recent and equally important, with interviews with many important figures. This is the wonderfully titles 'Orwell Rolls In His Grave':
Enjoy :o)
I should have posted these videos up long ago. They are both excellent documentaries regarding the media and the global corporate empire and how they manipulate the masses. The first is a documentary about Noam Chomskyand the Media (which is also it's subtitle) and it is called 'Manufacturing Consent'. It's a good few years old but it is more relavent than ever, much in the same way the Orwell's work is:
The second documentary is far more recent and equally important, with interviews with many important figures. This is the wonderfully titles 'Orwell Rolls In His Grave':
Enjoy :o)
Home Office plans to spy on your social network conversations
This is just a short entry for folks to follow up for themeselves. I found the following article burried low down in a small reference below irrelavent faff about rugby on The Guardian website :
Home Office defends plan to monitor social network conversations
As always I would like to remind folks that infact there is something you can do about this. Simply google for social movements and campaigns in opposition to these orwellian policies and sign up (e.g. Avaaz, 28 Degrees, Amnesty International and so forth). Share your links to the sites for specific campaigns on your social networking facility of choice. This stuff works!
As always I would like to remind folks that infact there is something you can do about this. Simply google for social movements and campaigns in opposition to these orwellian policies and sign up (e.g. Avaaz, 28 Degrees, Amnesty International and so forth). Share your links to the sites for specific campaigns on your social networking facility of choice. This stuff works!
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Moral Majority
A short poem commenting on
the influence of the media on our culture
See that odd guy over there?
Kind of funny looking with weird curly hair.
We like to put him down,
With nasty words and disapproving frowns.
He's just a guy trying go his own way,
But we can't have that, it's our way or the highway.
There can't be any way but the way we've been taught,
we have no time for dumb facts and perish any thoughts,
Popular phrases, top sports and talking heads,
Fill our minds with the pull of commercial threads.
Get behind 'our lads' (we must support elitist tyranny),
We know they are bad, they don't speak our vocabulary.
Their children don't matter, to us they are just trouble,
So we'll bomb their strange towns, they are just not adorable.
We see our home enemies waving banners and angry,
They're a danger, not normal, and probably drink shandy.
We cheer new police power, every day, every hour,
They protect us from truth, because truth is so sour.
See that dead guy over there?
The banner guy, you know, the one with weird hair.
Let's laugh about him now, he was evil anyway,
Then we strap on our yokes for work, don't you?
Elite bosses are watching every day, every single day.
Kind of funny looking with weird curly hair.
We like to put him down,
With nasty words and disapproving frowns.
He's just a guy trying go his own way,
But we can't have that, it's our way or the highway.
There can't be any way but the way we've been taught,
we have no time for dumb facts and perish any thoughts,
Popular phrases, top sports and talking heads,
Fill our minds with the pull of commercial threads.
Get behind 'our lads' (we must support elitist tyranny),
We know they are bad, they don't speak our vocabulary.
Their children don't matter, to us they are just trouble,
So we'll bomb their strange towns, they are just not adorable.
We see our home enemies waving banners and angry,
They're a danger, not normal, and probably drink shandy.
We cheer new police power, every day, every hour,
They protect us from truth, because truth is so sour.
See that dead guy over there?
The banner guy, you know, the one with weird hair.
Let's laugh about him now, he was evil anyway,
Then we strap on our yokes for work, don't you?
Elite bosses are watching every day, every single day.
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